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It's Phage Picks time! This week's theme is bread and butter — two picks from Jess about methods papers that should be staples of any phage lab: her favourite phage-making paper, and an (aspirational) phage quantification paper she really w

Eligo Bioscience in Paris is hiring a Senior In-Vivo Scientist, to study host-microbiome interactions using in vivo, ex vivo, and in vitro models for preclinical development of microbiome therapeutics.

DSM-Firmenich is hiring a Sr. Scientist Strain Development Cultures ISOL, to study phage robustness of cheese starter cultures and lead phage research in Wageningen, Netherlands.

Phagos and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are hosting a hackathon called Phagos x AWS — Hackdays 2025, taking place on May 14-15th, 2025. The event aims to leverage AI and LLMs for phage genome analysis, addressing antibiotic resistance and infe

Jerry Nick (National Jewish Health) and colleagues published a new paper on trial design for phage therapy against M. abscessus in cystic fibrosis, showing a standardized protocol to assess efficacy and safety of phage treatment in refracto

Jeremy Barr (Monash University) published a new perspective on T-series phages as reductionist models, discussing how these phages have shaped the field of microbiology and continue to be important research tools.

Amalie Høgh Eichler (University of Copenhagen) and colleagues published a new paper on PQS stability in phage lysates, showing PQS is highly stable in phage lysates for up to a year and can induce quorum sensing responses when carried over,

The Online Citizen wrote a piece on Singapore General Hospital's successful use of phage therapy to treat a patient using phages, which allowed the patient to avoid high-risk surgery.

Ortiz de Ora and colleagues created Phollow, a live-imaging approach that tracks phage replication and spread in situ at single-virion resolution by marking virions with distinct fluorescent proteins as they assemble in newly infected cells

A Cell paper reports the complete structure and atomic model of mycobacteriophage Bxb1, a virus of Mycobacterium smegmatis, including the capsid, tail tube and tail-tip assembly. Cryoelectron tomography of phage bound to M. smegmatis shows

We are urgently seeking Clostridium septicum phages (or any Clostridium-specific phages) for a patient with osteomyelitis in Canada. If you can help, please reach out! Ways to help at this stage: - By sending your phages (or lysins!) for

We are urgently seeking Clostridium septicum phages (or any Clostridium-specific phages) for a patient with osteomyelitis in Canada. If you can help, please reach out! Ways to help at this stage: - By sending your phages (or lysins!) for

We are urgently seeking Clostridium septicum phages (or any Clostridium-specific phages) for a patient with osteomyelitis in Canada. If you can help, please reach out! Ways to help at this stage: - By sending your phages (or lysins!) for

"It was right in front of us the whole time." Imperial College London professors José Penadés & Tiago Costa challenged Google's new 'AI co-scientist' with a phage PICI question they'd just solved after years of work. Given their unpublished

Evergreen 2025 is happening, and for the first time in its 50-year history, we're taking it on the road! Register for the 26th Biennial Evergreen International Phage Meeting, which will be held August 3-8, 2025, at the University of Tennes

Has anybody got borrelial phage φBB-1? We'd also need a recommendation for correct concentration, dosage and administration. Thank you all! — Barbara Brenner

Qeen Biotechnologies (in partnership with Cellexus, CPI, University of Exeter, NRC Canada, and Unity Health Toronto) was awarded a $2M CAD grant through the Canada–UK: Biomanufacturing of Biologics and Advanced Therapies program to develop

Michael Shamash (McGill University) and colleagues published a new preprint on improving gut virome comparisons, showing that incorporating predicted phage host information enhances the analysis and comparison of gut viromes across differen

Amandine Maurin (University of Montpellier) and colleagues published a new paper on convergent evolution in a Salmonella phage, showing expanded host range and increased virulence evolved through parallel mutations, particularly in genes fo

Giuseppina Mariano, Justin Deme (University of Glasgow & National Cancer Institute) and colleagues published a new paper on structural and mechanistic insights into Zorya phage defense systems, showing ZorAB forms an ion-driven motor comple